[*] 36.28. innata est: agreeing with the last noun; cf. captus est, 24 7. [*] 37.1. optimum iudicium fecisset, had expressed the very highest opinion （a technical phrase）. [*] 37.3. cum tribunis … egerunt, etc., urged upon the tribunes … to apologize. [*] 37.4. primorum: see chapter on military affairs, I. 7. [*] 37.6. summa belli = the policy of the campaign. — suum … sed imperatoris: predicates after esse （§ 343. b (214. c ); B. 198. 3; G. 366; H. 447 (402); H-B. 340）. [*] 37.7. satisfactione, apology; cf. satisfacerent, above. [*] 37.8. ei, in him; after, the phrase fidem habere = fidere, which takes the dat. or abl. [*] 37.9. ut … duceret （result）: depends upon itinere exquisito; duceret refers to itinere. The sense is, such （a route） that it led, etc., a road which led. Caesar might have said quod duceret but for the quod in the previous line. The valley of the Doubs above Besançon is very narrow and the mountains precipitous; but, turning first to the north by the railroad coming from Vesoul and then up the valley of the Ognon River, the country becomes tolerably open to Villersexel and to Belfort, which lies in the gap between the Vosges and the Jura. This pass is interesting as having been for ages one of the great avenues from Germany into Gaul. See view, Fig. 20 and map, Fig. 22. — milium[passuum] limits circuitu, by a circuit of more than fifty miles. This must be reckoned as the distance to be traversed before coming to the main road again at about Belfort. [*] 37.11. 11 septimo die, etc.: at this time Caesar must have been somewhere near Mühlhausen （Mulhouse）, about seventy-five miles from Besançon （see maps, 3 & Fig. 22）; at any rate, at some point beyond Belfort on the route from Besançon to Strasburg （120 miles）, having passed beyond the gap into the valley of the Rhine. Ariovistus was then some twenty-four miles farther on. [*] 37.12. a nostris: i.e. forces.
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Caesar's Gallic War. J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1898.
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